Just because there is potential, it doesn’t mean there is fulfillment! If you want to know God’s rest, you have to know God’s way.
The writer of Psalm 95 blends the joy of worship with the necessity of obedience, urging that true worship is not just singing, but listening and following God. We’re not sure who wrote this Psalm, but it emphasizes the importance of worshiping God as The God, The King, The Creator, The One worthy of our worship, and we are His people, and He is our shepherd. The psalmist then then shifts to the children of Isreal who because of the hardness of their hearts, they could not enter into His rest.
Here we have one of the great warnings, we have here a negative passage with a positive truth. God is saying here, don’t do this!
There are many harsh things in life that we must deal with, but you choose how you respond in your heart.
In this psalm, he goes back to the father’s generation, it takes you all the way back their ancestors, back to the book of numbers 13-14. This Psalm cries loudly, “Don’t get stuck in the wilderness!”
God gives us here a conditional promise, that if you and I don’t continue to believe and obey God, and if we stop short of what God has for us, were going to miss what God has prepared for us. The saddest part about sin, is not what you get, but what you miss.